Famous Quotes / Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
56 Quotations by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- 21. It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
- 22. Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
- 23. Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manh ...
- 24. No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many ...
- 25. One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
- 26. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
- 27. Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
- 28. Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
- 29. Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
- 30. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
- 31. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t ...
- 32. Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
- 33. Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep ...
- 34. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
- 35. The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h ...
- 36. The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
- 37. The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward t ...
- 38. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
- 39. The pen is mightier than the sword.
- 40. The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.